Sister Elly Rex: Anchorage Alaska Mission 2020-2022

  We spent ALL day(11am-9pm) at the State Fair to find people to talk to about Jesus Christ. We talked with SO many people and smiled SO much that we both mutually agreed that we have 8 packs on our check bones. Batman saves lives with his 8 pack of abs and we save lives through our 8 pack of genuine smiles. #literallyflexin :)) "I can't believe anyone would ever eat an avocado plain", said our new friend Eliana in our first lesson. Sister 'BB' and I exchanged glances and announced that I had eaten a plain Avocado for dinner right before our visit. She looked at me funny and changed the subject. HAHA oh well.  I had exchanges with my favorite, Sister Staheli!!! I love her so much even though every time I see her, she tries to recruit me to attend Utah State... She is serving in Wasilla again so I had the privilege to join her! Since it was a Friday, we decided to stop at our favorite gas station on the KGB and have a "return of the Freal Frazil Friday". ...

  I didn't get punched, but our friend that came to youth night did... let's just say hockey players don't do well with a fun game of jugular. Another thing that is gut wrenching is that red Salmon looks just like watermelon. We were filming a video on our friends helicopter pad and these 2 teenage boys shout to us from their backyard, "WANT SOME SALMON?!". What a great pick up line. We ran over and these kiddos had caught a couple salmon and they were trying to fillet it. It was definitely an Alaskan experience as they were chopping away at fish heads, a bush plane flew overhead, while his dad came up on a 4 wheeler, with moose racks on the back. Alaska is so free. I love it.  I've been studying a lot about the light of Christ. The light of Christ is my inner light! My source of inspiration! My knowledge of right and wrong! It is my guardian angel! And what I like most of all, it gives every human something in common. EVERY person you see, whether it be the W...

  I learned that not a lot of people carry tire gauges. I also learned that you don't need a tire gauge when there's a nail in your tire. Sometimes you've just gotta see the problem for yourself instead of relying on the "(!)" alert the car gives you. "The sweetest experience I have felt in life is to feel a promoting and act on it and later find out that it was a fulfillment of someone's need. I always want the lord to know that if he needs an errand run, that Thomas Monson will run that errand for him", Thomas S. Monson. This quote spoke to me the morning I met Sharron. I LOVE acting on spiritual, out of the blue promptings. It helps my 'full-send' self reach it's full spiritual potential.  How easy it would have been to just stay inside our apartment and "Facebook find" Saturday night. But I felt a need to drive to a street, park, and walk up a street. Just as we were walking up the street I paused and had the thought to look...

I went on exchanges with our Sister Training Leaders and did a senior photoshoot with my friends Kaylee&Mya. After, I saw 2 guys and their truck on an island in the middle of the Matenuska river. Not knowing how they drove onto the island, I yelled out to the shore, "Hey! What are you doing?!". "gettin' skippin' rocks. Why's it matter?", he answered. I noticed he had a huge Oklahoma tattoo on his left arm, with a star in the center. "Home", I thought! I yelled out, "Are you from Oklahoma?". His answer, "Are you missionaries or sum? I'll let you talk to me if you can skip a rock farther than me". He drove his truck through the river to the bank which resulted in his truck braking down. He introduced himself as Willie and told us to use all of his skipping rocks that he had just collected, while he fixed the truck. We talked with him about his faith in God. He explained to us that he is a 28 year old father of 5 kids. ...

  So we, Sister 'BB' and I,  prayerfully went without food and drink for a period of time this Sunday. Our next meal was eating waffles with the amazing Cruz family. All day we were dreaming of chugging a gallon of water and after this meal we REALLY needed some agua. We went by 4 peoples houses to see if they were interested in hearing a message. Two were! #score But, we were still thirsty. So after 2 hours I decided to pick the nearest member, knock on their door, and plead for water. So I did it! We didn't even know who the members were. But the family had a cool, charcoal Tesla outside and I looked at my comp and said, "we about to get some beautiful water". Their older son opened the door and we explained our predicament and he rushed us to the kitchen where there was a huge family dinner. They watched us drink the beautiful, chilled water. One of the most awkward moments ever.  We taught the Word of Wisdom to Inez this week and invited her to share her tho...